config t Corp(config)#
router rip Corp(config-router)#
passive-interface FastEthernet 0/1 This command will stop RIP updates from being propagated out of FastEthernet interface 0/1, but it can still receive
RIP updates.
Should We Really Use RIP in an Internetwork? You have been hired as a consultant to install a couple of Cisco routers into a growing network. They have a
couple of old Unix routers that they want to keep in the network. These routers do not support any routing
protocol except RIP. I guess this means you just have to run RIP on the entire network. If you were balding
before, your head now shines like chrome.
No need for hairs abandoning ship though—you can run RIP on a router connecting that old network, but you
certainly don't need to run RIP throughout the whole internetwork!
You can do what is called
redistribution, which is basically translating from one type of routing protocol to another.
This means that you can support those old routers using RIP but use something much better like Enhanced IGRP
on the rest of your network.
This will prevent RIP routes from being sent all over the internetwork gobbling up all that precious bandwidth!
Advertising a Default Route Using RIP Now I’m going to guide you through how to advertise a way out of your autonomous system to other routers, and
you’ll see this is completed the same way with OSPF. Imagine that our Corp router’s Fa0/0 interface is connected to
some type of Metro-Ethernet as a connection to the Internet. This is a pretty common configuration today that uses
a LAN interface to connect to the ISP instead of a serial interface.
If we do add an Internet connection to Corp, all routers in our AS (SF and LA) must know where to send packets
destined for networks on the Internet or they’ll just drop the packets when they get a remote request. One solution
to this little hitch would be to place a default route on every router and funnel the information to Corp, which in
turn would have a default route to the ISP. Most people do this type of configuration in small- to medium-size
networks because it actually works pretty well!
But since I’m running RIPv2 on all routers, I’ll just add a default route on the Corp router to our ISP, as I would
normally. I’ll then add another command to advertise my network to the other routers in the AS as the default route
to show them where to send packets destined for the Internet.
Here’s my new Corp configuration:
Corp(config)#